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Strezov Sampling Velvet Grand KONTAKT


Free Download Strezov Sampling Velvet Grand KONTAKT | 81.6 GB
It was only natural for the Steinway B – one of the most recorded pianos in history – to serve as the foundation for the largest piano library we have ever created. Its expressive, rich and realistic character, in combination with the depth of sampling we allowed ourselves this time, translate directly into versatility of use. Look under the hood with us, and see for yourselves what close to 26 000 individual samples are capable of!

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Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames The Art of Early European Cinema


Free Download Vito Adriaensens, "Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames: The Art of Early European Cinema "
English | ISBN: 147440698X | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 35 MB
Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames explores the intermedial context of early cinema. It tackles the first European feature films’ intricate relationship with its sister arts to reveal that the period referred to by historians as the "long nineteenth century" was one in which Bourgeois Realism reigned supreme. The nineteenth-century rise of the middle class coincided with realism becoming the dominant artistic mode in both form and content, leading to a revival of genre painting in the art academies; the supremacy of the social melodrama on the stage; and the advent of Pictorialism in photography. In its quest for artistic legitimacy, European filmmakers sought to win over middle-class audiences with films based on popular works of art – the first "art films" – by employing similar visual and narrative strategies as its artistic counterparts.

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Velvet Elvis Repainting the Christian Faith


Free Download Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith By Rob Bell
2012 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 0062197215 | EPUB | 1 MB
Velvet Elvis is the first book from Rob Bell, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins. Selected as one of 2011’s most influential people by Time Magazine, pastor Bell offers original and refreshingly personal perspectives on what Christianity is truly all about in Velvet Elvis. A vibrant voice for a new generation of Christians-the most recognizable Christian leader among young adults-Rob Bell inspires readers to take a fresh look at traditional questions of faith.

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Loaded The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground [Audiobook]


Free Download Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C1TBH5C3 | 2023 | 16 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 470 MB
Author: Dylan Jones
Narrator: Dylan Jones, Robert G. Slade

Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this definitive oral history celebrates not only the impact of The Velvet Underground but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century. Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen-whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s-The Velvet Underground represents ground zero. Crystallizing the idea of the bohemian, urban, narcissistic art school gang around a psychedelic rock and roll band-a stylistic idea that evolved in the rarefied environs of Andy Warhol’s Factory-The Velvets were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line-up.

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